In recent years, abstract painting has experienced both a new popularity and a critical backlash. Can it be written off as ‘zombie formalism’ or are innovative approaches to abstraction really being developed?

Dansaekhwa, or ‘Korean Monochrome Painting’, is the name ascribed to a style of painting practiced by a loosely affiliated set of Korean artists who came to prominence in the 1970s. Three recent exhibitions — at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, and Kukje Gallery, Seoul — have, for the first time in a generation, brought this work to an audience outside of Korea, while a presentation of Dansaekhwa will be shown as part of the 56th Venice Biennale in May this year. We asked the curators of these exhibitions — Sam Bardaouil, Till Fellrath, Joan Kee and Yoon Jin Sup — to reflect on the key factors that led to the development of Dansaekhwa’s unique aesthetic and what its legacy is today. by Yoon Jin Sup, Joan Kee, Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath

Astrid Kaminski talks to Simone Forti, the legendary artist and choreographer who changed the course of both Postmodern dance and Minimal art.
Artists Gerard & Kelly and Maria Hassabi, along with curator Ana Janevski, discuss Forti’s influence on their own work

From the cover of an Adam Ant album to Lindsay Anderson’s films, Samuel Beckett’s plays, Nick Cave’s music and Bruce Nauman’s videos, the artists and filmmakers discuss the evolution of their artistic imaginations by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard

Praised by T.S. Eliot and best friends with Harry Smith, Lionel Ziprin was a mystic and poet whose archive is a source of fascination for many contemporary artists, especially Carol Bove, who now houses it in her New York studio by Andy Battagliaby Andy Battaglia

From conversations with friends including André Breton, William Burroughs and Caresse Crosby, to studying astronomy, physics and the Greek myths, Liliane Lijn discusses the evolution of her pictorial language by Liliane Lijn